120 episodes
On the Media WNYC Studios
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4.9 • 14 Ratings
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The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Host Brooke Gladstone examines threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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Rightwing Media is Obsessed with the Darien Gap
Immigrants are being ambushed by rightwing activists with cameras at a dangerous crossing.
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What Bush v. Gore Revealed About Contested Elections
The contested election of 2000 and the extraordinary legal and PR battle that ensued.
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The Story Behind Biden’s New Tariffs
How Biden’s trade policy came to look a lot like Trump’s.
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What the Media Get Wrong About Campus Protests
What the focus on violence and chaos obscures; and, a look at how Israeli media are covering the conflict.
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Revisiting a Conversation with Paul Auster
Last week, novelist Paul Auster died from complications related to lung cancer. In this conversation from 2021, he discusses a (mostly) forgotten writer who changed literature forever.
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How to Read a President, with Carlos Lozada, Vinson Cunningham, and Curtis Sittenfeld
Getting to know presidents through memoirs, journalism, and fiction.
Customer Reviews
I am addicted
Best podcast and a must-listen on my list. Interesting the way they not only discuss WHAT is in the news but also HOW the media handle that type of news. Interesting critic of the Bad and Good in news casting and also updates on how to LISTEN and READ the news.
Excellent content!
On the media is high on my list of top 10 favorite podcasts.
Top Notch
Like This American Life On the Media is just the podcast I as an European need to learn more about you. You know, we are coming to get you, right?